Quotes About Friendship

If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair.

The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne.

If we take matrimony at it's lowest, we regard it as a sort of friendship recognised by the police.

Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.

Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't have too many friends because then you're just not really friends.

For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God.

One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.

It may happen sometimes that a long debate becomes the cause of a longer friendship. Commonly, those who dispute with one another at last agree.

The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.

But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.

Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

Of all things which wisdom provides to make life entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

Moral science is better occupied when treating of friendship than of justice.

Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.

A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.

Love between man and man is impossible because there must not be sexual intercourse and friendship between man and woman is impossible because there must be sexual intercourse.

Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.

Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship; and pass the rosy wine.

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.

The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.

I have long enjoyed the friendship and companionship of Republicans because I am by instinct a teacher, and I would like to teach them something.

Opposition is true friendship.

General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be.